Typing With Ease Using Autotext - Blackberry dummies 2 Manual

4. Press the menu key and touch-press Save.
Isn't it great when you can actually read what's on the screen? But don't
think you're finished quite yet. You still have some personalizing to do.

Typing with ease using AutoText

Even the most devoted BlackBerry user has to admit that typing on a full
keyboard is easier than thumb-typing on a BlackBerry. To even the score a
bit, your BlackBerry Storm comes with an AutoText feature, which is a kind
of shorthand.
AutoText basically works with a pool of abbreviations that you set up. Then
you type an abbreviation to get the word you associated with that abbrevia-
tion. For example, after setting up b/c as an AutoText word for because, any
time you type b/c, you automatically get because onscreen.
The whole AutoText thing works only if you set up your own personal code,
mapping your abbreviations to their meanings. (This is why we're discussing
AutoText as part of the personalization discussion.)
To set up your own code, do the following:
1. Press the menu key and touch-press the options icon.
2. Touch-press the AutoText option.
You can choose to see (or search for) existing AutoText words or create
new ones.
3. Press the menu key and touch-press New.
The AutoText screen appears, as shown in Figure 3-1.
Figure 3-1:
Create
AutoText
here.
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